Woodruff D P
Department of Physics, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK
Philos Trans A Math Phys Eng Sci. 2015 Apr 13;373(2039). doi: 10.1098/rsta.2014.0230.
The key ideas presented in the classic paper 'The growth of crystals and the equilibrium structure of their surfaces' by W. K. Burton, N. Cabrera and F. C. Frank, published in Philosophical Transactions A in 1951, are summarized and put in the context of both the state of knowledge at the time of publication and the considerable amount of work since that time that has built on and developed these ideas. Many of these developments exploit the huge increase in the capabilities of computer modelling that complement the original analytic approach of the paper. The dearth of relevant experimental data at the time of the original publication has been transformed by the application of increasingly sophisticated modern methods of surface science. This commentary was written to celebrate the 350th anniversary of the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
W.K. 伯顿、N. 卡布雷拉和F.C. 弗兰克于1951年发表在《皇家学会哲学学报A辑》上的经典论文《晶体的生长及其表面的平衡结构》中所提出的关键思想，在此进行了总结，并结合论文发表时的知识状况以及自那时以来基于并发展这些思想的大量工作进行阐述。其中许多进展利用了计算机建模能力的大幅提升，这种提升对论文原有的分析方法起到了补充作用。原始发表时相关实验数据的匮乏，已因日益复杂的现代表面科学方法的应用而得到改观。这篇评论文章是为庆祝《皇家学会哲学学报》创刊350周年而撰写的。
